Learn Something

Here's the new educational plan:  everyone should take their heads out of their asses.

The problem, it seems, is not education, per se, but people.  You see, people are stupid.  They act like herd animals and they care primarily about material things and they put themselves first in nearly every situation.  Are some people altruistic?  Yes, of course.  They are few and far between, and they don't always act altruistically.  What's left the rest of the time?  Selfishness, narcissism, and vainglory.  (Sigh.)  I want to love people; it's just that they don't usually give me reason to.

Education:  (again)  go ... Germany is teaching religious tolerance towards Muslims in some of its public schools.  Why, you ask, would a public school system need to teach religious tolerance to little children?  Because their parents don't.   People in general are under the (mistaken) impression that everything they think is correct, simply because it's in their head.

It's quite possible, fellow humans, to be ... wrong.  Most of us are wrong, quite frequently, in fact.  And just because we have held an assumption or a belief for as long as we can remember does not make that idea correct.  It simply makes that idea familiar and thus comfortable.

People need to get out of their comfort zones more often.  (Myself included.)   The world is an enormous place, and most people are not like you.  Or like me.  Because everyone is different.  That should be a good thing.  Embrace it.